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- From: jbaez@riesz.mit.edu (John C. Baez)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Cost of public vs. private transportation
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.140817.15852@galois.mit.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 14:08:17 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.085549.20998@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Jul28.155151.3676@aero.org> <1992Jul30.142935.7199@ke4zv.uucp>
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- In article <1992Jul30.142935.7199@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul28.155151.3676@aero.org> foy@aero.org (Richard Foy) writes:
- >>Do the figures of cost of highways include the cost of highway patrol, and of
- >>a fair share of the judicial system?
- >
- >At least in Georgia, highway patrol and traffic court systems are net
- >revenue producers. In many smaller jurisdictions, speeding fines are
- >the sole source of revenue for local government. Georgia, home of the
- >original speed trap run by local parasites.
-
- Could someone explain to me why this is in sci.physics, except for
- reasons of tradition? I'm getting tired of this newsgroup being
- dominated by public policy disputes -- for the SSC it makes some sense,
- but what the #$%#^ do speed traps in Georgia have to do with physics.
-
- Of course, there's the old excuse, "I'm sorry officer, but the light was
- blue-shifted so much it looked GREEN to me, not RED!"
-